A management system comprises a movement management unit that communicates via a communication device with a plurality of moving bodies including an autonomous moving body provided with an autonomous control unit for moving autonomously, and that manages the movement of the plurality of moving bodies. The movement management unit comprises a priority/subordination determination unit that determines the degree of priority/subordination relating to the respective movements of the plurality of moving bodies on the basis of individual information of the moving bodies. The autonomous moving body comprises: a priority/subordination comparison unit that compares another priority/subordination degree, which is a degree of priority/subordination determined by the priority/subordination determination unit for another moving body that is a moving body, from among the plurality of moving bodies, different from the autonomous moving body, and the host priority/subordination degree, which is a degree of priority/subordination determined by the priority/subordination determination unit for the autonomous moving body; or a priority/subordination reception unit that receives the comparison results of the host priority/subordination degree and the other priority/subordination degree obtained by comparisons by the moving body management unit.
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2. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the priority/subordination changing section changes the self priority/subordination degree based on presence or lack of a passenger on the autonomous moving body.
3. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the priority/subordination changing section changes the self priority/subordination degree based on a movement velocity of the autonomous moving body.
4. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the priority/subordination changing section changes the self priority/subordination degree based on a movement altitude of the autonomous moving body.
5. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the priority/subordination changing section changes the self priority/subordination degree based on a remaining capacity of a propulsion energy source of the autonomous moving body.
6. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the priority/subordination changing section changes the self priority/subordination degree based on a distance that the autonomous moving body is movable using a propulsion energy source.
8. The management system according to claim 7, wherein when there are a plurality of moving bodies that have equal priority/subordination degrees, the priority/subordination adjusting section adjusts the priority/subordination degree of a moving body for which a timing at which the priority/subordination degree was determined is a first timing to become higher than the priority/subordination degree of a moving body for which a timing at which the priority/subordination degree was determined is a second timing that is later than the first timing.
9. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the autonomous moving body controls the autonomous control section based on the comparison result obtained through the comparison made by the priority/subordination comparing section.
10. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the individual information includes machine information that is determined based on use application of the moving body.
11. The management system according to claim 10, wherein the machine information includes a machine classification, and the use application of a moving body associated with a first machine classification among a plurality of the machine classifications is of a more public nature than the use application of a moving body associated with a second machine classification among the plurality of machine classifications.
14. The management system according to claim 11, wherein the priority/subordination determining section determines, for a moving body for which the machine information indicates the first machine classification, a priority/subordination degree that is higher than the priority/subordination degree determined for a moving body for which the machine information indicates the second machine classification.
15. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the individual information includes geographic information determined based on a geographic unit classification into which the moving body is permitted to enter.
16. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the individual information includes passenger information determined based on presence or lack of a passenger on the moving body.
17. The management system according to claim 16, wherein the priority/subordination determining section determines, for a moving body for which the passenger information indicates the presence of a passenger, a priority/subordination degree that is higher than the priority/subordination degree determined for a moving body for which the passenger information indicates that there is no passenger.
18. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the individual information includes loaded object information determined based on a value of a loaded object on the moving body.
19. The management system according to claim 18, wherein the priority/subordination determining section determines, for a moving body for which the loaded object information indicates a first value, a priority/subordination degree that is higher than the priority/subordination degree determined for a moving body for which the loaded object information indicates a second value that is less than the first value.
20. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the individual information includes state information indicating a state of the moving body.
25. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the individual information includes capability information determined based on a capability of the moving body.
27. The management system according to claim 26, wherein the maximum velocity is a maximum velocity in a vertical direction.
29. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the autonomous moving body further includes a receiving section configured to receive the priority/subordination degree determined by the priority/subordination determining section and a transmitting section configured to transmit the priority/subordination degree received by the receiving section.
30. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the autonomous moving body further includes a request signal transmitting section configured to transmit a request signal for making a request to the other moving body for transmission of the priority/subordination degree of the other moving body.
31. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the movement managing section further includes a monitoring section configured to check whether the autonomous moving body has received the priority/subordination degree.
32. The management system according to claim 7, wherein when the other priority/subordination degree is higher than the self priority/subordination degree, the autonomous control section of the autonomous moving body sets a movement route of the autonomous moving body in a manner prioritizing the other moving body over the autonomous moving body.
33. The management system according to claim 7, wherein the plurality of moving bodies are configured to broadcast the priority/subordination degrees using optical communication and radio communication.
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